I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
I am currently a year 5/6 teacher in Devon so I create a great many resources throughout the year - particularly when it comes to that dreaded SAT time of year. Hope you will find many helpful resources here to save you time during the hectic 2 term year that is Year 6!
Four short passages where children must use inference with regards to the text in order to answer 3 mark questions. This is good practice for providing evidence from the text itself and explaining reasoning.
These exercises can be carried out in a whole class guided reading environment, small groups or individually. Might be a good idea to one text as a class and discuss how to answer the questions. Give another as a paired exercise and the final two as individual work.
A teacher notes/answers sheet is provided as a separate file for ease of marking.
Worksheet that gives students a full 4 operations workout, combining fluency and application in solving word problems. Resource includes 3 differentiated worksheets to cater for low ability year 5 through to high ability year 6 (one, two and three star sheets).
Problems include:
addition/subtraction
multiplication/division
long multiplication/long division/short division
times table practise
one, two and multi-step problems/operations
Good for SAT revision, general workout after a holiday, holding task, extension to any work being conducted within additive or multiplicative reasoning.
Answer sheets included for ease of marking.
Reading comprehension (4 pages) about a girl who plays for her reserve team as a striker. She really wants to get her big chance playing in the first team and this story is about her first opportunity.
Comprehension includes 16 questions with true/false, fact/opinion, chronological ordering, identifying similes and exclamatory sentences, retrieval and vocabulary/word meanings.
Answers are enclosed for ease of marking.
Exercise is good practice for SAT reading and the questions are designed to mirror the question types in previous papers.
1 page of reading - Oliver Twist Reading Comprehension for Year 5 and 6.
Text is taken from the opening page of Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
Some text has been altered to make it less antiquated and age appropriate so it is not entirely the original text (but it is close and the same in meaning).
24 mark reading comprehension (with answers for ease of marking).
retrieval
inference
fact and opinion
true and false
word comprehension and synonym
A time saving assessment tool providing a quiz for year sixes to inform their teacher on work that needs to be done in specific areas. Exercises include:
Determiners ‘a’ and ‘an’
Which Punctuation Mark?!.
Exclamation, Question, Statement or Command?
Modal Verbs of Certainty and Possibility
Capital Letters and Punctuation
Conjunctions and Sentence Types
Relative pronouns and clauses
Identifying prepositions
Using verbs and nouns in context
Identifying adverbs and adjective
Each page has a 10 mark marking system. You could give the pupils one exercise at at time (out of 10) or give them the whole quiz (out of 90). The quiz could also be used to show progress if taken at the beginning of the autumn term, for example.
A nice resource to break pupils into the autumn term. A five stanza poem about autumn accompanied by a 12 mark reading comprehension. Question areas include:
retrieval
true or false
fact and opinion
synonyms
word comprehension
inference
Good for general poetry study or simply as a reading task. Short nature of poem should make the task accessible to most abilities.
I sometimes find children can be slightly unclear on the actual difference between fact and opinion. This always seems to come up in the SAT reading papers so I constructed this short exercise that incorporates a passage on New York. Should serve well as a 10 minute starter that can be discussed as a class afterwards. Alternatively, it could serve as a shared class reading exercise.
Newspaper article on Prometheus stealing fire from The Gods and giving it to humankind. Uses formal language and writing features expected in a news article as well as including a shift to informality where appropriate in interviews.
Article is accompanied by a 14 question (19 mark) reading comprehension comprising of:
retrieval
inference
true/false
fact/opinion
synonyms
language
level of formality
Available as Word and PDF with answers for ease of marking.
Short passages that provide children with an inference workout with the purpose of answering 3 mark questions. Questions draw on inference where children need to justify answers, provide evidence from the text and provide information from text where meanings are not explicit.
All answers provided for ease of
Practise at reading timetables, calculating time durations and some word problems mixed in at greater depth level. Good resource for around mid-year and good practise for SATs reasoning as the reasoning paper usually incorporates a timetable question.
Year 5/6 Reading comprehension based on a newspaper article written about a planned housing development in a fictional town. Contains layout of a newspaper report, opinions and examples of formal writing throughout. Also contains interviews and opinions to provide context to the report.
Comes with a 20mark reading comprehension paper with questions based around the following:
True and False
Fact and Opinion
Inference
Retrieval
Word comprehension
Synonym
Questions are accompanied by an answer sheet for ease of marking and marking boxes for speedy feeback (especially if peer-marking is to be used).
2-page reading comprehension River Systems and how they flow from source to mouth. Includes passages on the different river courses, meanders, deposition and erosion.
Question types include:
retrieval
true/false
word comprehension
Answers included for ease of marking.
A set of questions based on number and word problems - includes rounding, reading data, percentages and ratio. This revision exercise is aimed at children working at the expected level
First in series of SPAG/GPS quick quizzes that gradually work through the different aspects of the GPS curriculum. Ideal for early and gradual preparation for the GPS SAT paper in May. Can be used as knowledge retrieval exercise or as a lesson plenary.
Answers included on pages 3 and 4 for ease of marking or quick feedback.
50 mark quiz.
A useful year 6 revision tool comprising of 19 grammar and punctuation questions.
Also includes 20 spellings with a mixture of year 5/6 list spellings, frequently used words and homophones.
Questions targeted on:
clauses
adverbs and adjectives
relative clauses
word classes
tenses
‘a’ and ‘an’
formal language
passive and active voice
All answers are included for ease of marking.
Year 5 and 6 reading comprehension based on esafety and keeping safe on the internet. 22 mark reading comprehension. Comprehension discusses the stranger dangers associated with online gaming/use, gaming addiction and how to look after yourself during online activities.
Reading comprhension covers the following areas in the questioning.
information retrieval
word comprehension/synonyms
Fact and opinion
inference
Answers are included for ease of marking
2 separate worksheets (with answers for ease of marking) that call on pupils to identify main, subordinate and relative clauses in different sentences. The method asks for similar identification to that asked for in the GPS SATs test so can be used as a good foundation for revision or simple teaching throughout upper key stage 2.
A poem consisting of 8 stanzas that explains Henry’s sixth wives. Good cross-curricular link between English, poetry writing and history. Poetry contains examples of alliteration, repetition, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm.
First stanza sample:
Henry wanted a male heir
A bouncing baby son
Katherine of Aragon couldn’t give him one
So Henry told her they were done.
“I’ll find another wife,” he said
And consigned her to the bin
And before his poor first wife was dead
He was chasing Anne Boleyn.
Comprehension consists of 15 SAT style questions ranging from:
true/false
fact/opinion
chronological ordering
retrieval
inference
GPS (finding a metaphor)
features of poetry
All answers are included at end of document for ease of marking.
Brief worksheet aimed at expected level year 6s. Provides a useful example of multi-step problem solving with money, much like those children can expect to find in a reasoning SAT paper.
Answers to the money problems are included for ease of marking and assessment.
An exercise children can do in pairs, groups or individually based on identifying subordinate clauses and conjunctions.
I find that children often get confused when asked to underline either clauses or the conjunctions. This is a good exercise to get them used to what the vocabulary is referring to.